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The CDC Foundation has released new e-cigarette sales data in national and state briefs with sales by e-cigarette flavor and device types through March 2023. One state brief shows that following California’s flavored e-cigarette restrictions, monthly e-cigarette total unit sales decreased by 35.2% from December 4, 2022, a decline representing 27.8% of the decline in [...]
ASPiRE’s Lisa Henriksen, Trent Johnson, and Nina Schleicher co-authored another T21 study, which examined the impact of state-level T21 laws on age verification of cigarette and e-cigarette purchases among young adults before and after implementation of the federal T21 policy. They found that state T21 status correlated with age verification for e-cigarettes but not cigarettes. [...]
CounterTobacco recently hosted “Better Conversations about Health Equity and Tobacco Point of Sale Strategies,” a webinar about messaging on the topics of tobacco sales and health equity. Experts addressed questions like: “How can we talk about health equity in ways that resonate?” and other effective ways to message about health equity, as well as best practices to [...]
Henriksen, Johnson, and Schleicher were co-authors of a study that looked at promotional strategies, products, and compliance with regulations among vape shops in Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, San Diego, and Seattle in 2018 and 2021. They found that with increasing restrictions, fewer shops sold their own e-liquid brands or accommodated on-site use/sampling, but fewer [...]
ASPiRE’s Amanda Kong and Joseph Lee are co-authors of a study conducted in 2019-22 in which buyers aged 18-20 tried to buy cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and smokeless tobacco at retail stores in New Jersey, New York City and Pitt County, N.C. Buyers documented whether they were asked for identification and whether they were [...]
A new report from John Taurus and Frank Chaloupka of the University of Illinois at Chicago analyzed tobacco sales and convenience store data to look at economic trends in tobacco retailers. Their findings help counter common arguments that tobacco control policies (including flavored product sales restrictions) negatively impact business. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids developed [...]
On May 12, the Food and Drug Administration blocked 10 companies from marketing or distributing 6,500 flavored e-liquid and e-cigarette products. The agency said the action, part of its process for determining whether it is appropriate for products to be on the market, covered a variety of flavored e-cigarettes, including flavors like Citrus and Strawberry Cheesecake. [...]
Researchers surveyed residents in 11 counties in California’s Central Valley about flavored tobacco products and e-cigarettes. They found 58% support for prohibiting the sale of flavored products, with flavored policies more likely to be backed by women, seniors, Latino people, and people who do not smoke or vape. Participants who believed e-cigarettes helped reduce tobacco [...]
On May 11, R.J. Reynolds sued California state officials over Attorney General Robert Bonta’s decision that the tobacco company’s new menthol-like flavored cigarettes violated California’s recent law prohibiting sales of flavored tobacco products. The company is advertising the products under its popular menthol brands, Camel Crush and Newport, and promoting them as being “crisp” and producing [...]
In just nine pages, a new resource available from the Public Health Communications Collaborative covers all the steps of creating a plain-language communications product, from considering your audience to testing your products before release. Read the guide. [...]